this is a great demonstration. what I like is that you can fairly intuitively understand that these different mechanisms were invented to solve specific problems that the others don't address.
I can tell as much, but not specifically what. I was mostly thinking about what the most energy efficient method was. The tilt, table, and vert-lift seem to be at a disadvantage by how high they can be raised. All the others will permit ships of arbitrarily large height. Perhaps those are easier to use, because you're not putting the fulcrum at the end of the bridge, but rather along the wide edge or all corners at once (to spread the energy evenly).
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts The army has vehicles with the folding bridge on its back : folded it doesnt take that much space and it can be quickly deployed to cross a river or something en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M60_AVLB
@@timehunter9467 Not necessarily lego, it's more of how youtube works as a platform. Plenty of people are making successful careers out of niches they enjoy making videos out of whereas this wasn't really an option decades before.
And the video just ends right there. What a work of art. No asking for subs, likes, linking videos on screen to get additional views. It just ends with all the bridges on screen labeled. This is perfection.
The folding bridge looks the most unstable. I hope in real life, reinforcements are added so that it doesn't bend as much as this one did. Well done on this!
The very best part of this video is the foley work on the boat crossings. When the boat goes over the hydraulic tubes or the electrical cords and the sound matches? *Chef’s kiss*
It's impressive how much you communicate without uttering a single word. The use of motors etc to show the mechanisms and minifigs moving on their own after building with your hands really brings the LEGO to life! Perfect video, as always.
If there's ever a part 2, consider including the "Strauss Bascule." The most common design uses a parallelogram linkage and they are found all over Chicagoland (mostly for railroads), as well as lift bridges (7:15), Scherzers (1:21), and some old designs that are now locked in place including a Rall bridge, Page bridge, and bobtail swing bridges. There's a PDF called "Historic Chicago Railroad Bridges" that explains more about them.
Using a miniature for testing is very common before building and engineering the real deal. If the small version works best then the full sized version is likely to work the best.
Nice to see at #10 the transporter bridge receiving a bit of love. Just a handful of them still remains, much less in operating conditions, and I live just 5 km from Bizkaia Bridge, the first one ever made and still perfectly working at 130 years old, an UNESCO heritage monument. The Eiffel tower of bridges (seriously, Alberto Palacio, the engineer, was a student on Eiffel studio).
The one in Newport not far from where I live is still working though as I understand it it's really only open as a tourist attraction. It is 117 years old.
We have one in France, at Rochefort, near La Rochelle (Charente Maritime region). It's almost never used and it's more like a remnant of a distant past. Its mechanism is told to be a real pain in the a$$ to maintain. I guess those bridges are used only for places where you don't often have to transport something from one side of the river to the other...
I live very near a number 9 that used to be a number 10 until it was converted in the 1920s, it is also one of only a few in the world that do the lifting with counterweights is my understanding
This is an amazing demonstration despite it being so small, he tried to make the design as compact as possible using lego as the base. This is just marvelous and an always iconic illustration of how you can put kids toys to real engineering.
yes. u have multiple pauses and beams supporting each stage of the bridge and all ur doing is making the person in the car stop and go every 2 seconds because they re waiting for every bridge to go up and down. even then its very likely u could combine 2 bridges into 1 and it still work rather well.
4:10 This mechanism is similar to a cars convertible roof folding back. It would be very interesting if someone implemented it into a build! Very cool video!
Bridges are definitely one of, if not, the most interesting pice of engineering. Combining bridges with lego, and doing in a simple way like this video, is just so cool
I love seeing these in action. My city has a big swing bridge that lets all sorts of big and small ships pass through; seeing it on such a small scale as well is really interesting.
My favorite one is the folding bridge, as that allows you to cover a massive space with a one-sided bridge! It could do with some extra locking mechanisms and reinforcements in reality, though, as no bridge should bend down under heavy loads as much as that one did.
I can't help but wonder, why would you pick one bridge over another? Where's the shots of something going wrong and a new bridge coming in that addresses that problem? I like seeing iterative design in action- or at least some pros and cons.
It's usually due to specific use cases. Some places don't have the space for the bridge section to lift in a specific direction. Or the bridge can't support the weight or something over a section lifted or turned or what have you. Sometimes it's because they can and it looks cool
It's not so much things going wrong where another bridge is needed, it's more a matter of available space, money, and materials, and requirements in terms of traffic
7:43 Transporter Bridge is a very unusual idea. Idk if you pay for the bridge or not but slow and delayed. Imagine if they keep using those ideas, it'll get traffic forever...
These bridges are usually used for light traffic areas that stretch over long plains. Some of them float on the water like a tiny barge to enable it to stretch even further and hold more load.
0:10 Bascule bridge (Simple) 0:51 Bascule bridge (Rolling) 1:33 Bascule bridge (Chain-attatched) 2:24 Retractable bridge (also known as Thrust bridge) 3:13 Folding bridge 4:26 Swing bridge 5:13 Tilt bridge 5:50 Table bridge (pneumatic) (similar to Vertical-lift bridge) 6:39 Vertical-lift bridge (hydraulic) (similar to Table bridge) 7:29 Transporter bridge (also known as ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge) 8:49 SIDE BY SIDE 9:09 SIDE BY SIDE (synchronized)
As I was watching this I was thinking I'd love to see your take on a transporter bridge. Did not disappoint! :D There's one near me that's over 115 years old and is still in use today.
This is why both a ship to battle against another kingdom and a vehicle going to McDonalds are *able* to *safely* cross the bridge. The battleship just won against Brickish Kingdom. The vehicle went to McDonalds and *finally* found the normal ice cream machine and bought what they want. Nice build!
Very cool! I don't know if these all have real-world examples but if they do it would be cool to put a little clip of a real-life bridge with that mechanism after each one!
My favourite part is seeing the boat falling down right after it passes the bridge as if there was a waterfall Edit: you can see all of the boat falling down at 8:55 and ut’s the funniest thing
Great video. The more complex something is and the more parts used, the higher the chance of something failing. Keep things as simple as possible, for longevity. Applies to everything
az első a legjobb.... egyszerű, olcsó, elegáns, fenntartható, a többi komplikálthoz képest...bár jobb egy olyan híd amit nem akadályoz senkit a haladásban és emelgetni se kell
There's a video I've watched on RUclips about a remote control bridge building truck, as it is in real life in the Army. I forget the channel name now but the bridge laying machine model is amazing! Drives up to the gap, lays the bridge in front of itself, drives over the bridge and retrieves the bridge afterwards! Mind blowing.
The best thing about LEGO is that it can be used to translate into real life, so most, if not all, of these bridge designs can and will work, and have worked, irl. LEGO is just simply too good.
I’m not even interested in Lego and yet me, a single celled goblin has decided to spend important time I could be using to sleep and have a healthy life on this. I like
this is a great demonstration. what I like is that you can fairly intuitively understand that these different mechanisms were invented to solve specific problems that the others don't address.
I can tell as much, but not specifically what. I was mostly thinking about what the most energy efficient method was.
The tilt, table, and vert-lift seem to be at a disadvantage by how high they can be raised. All the others will permit ships of arbitrarily large height. Perhaps those are easier to use, because you're not putting the fulcrum at the end of the bridge, but rather along the wide edge or all corners at once (to spread the energy evenly).
Yeah? Explain when and why to use the different types then
@@SofosProject tilt and the last one also have a clearance height
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts The army has vehicles with the folding bridge on its back : folded it doesnt take that much space and it can be quickly deployed to cross a river or something en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M60_AVLB
@@Paul2nis that's kinda cool, I didn't know this, thanks!
I just love the fact you can build an entire successful youtube channel/career off making nerdy engineering stuff out of lego. Amazing.
That’s the best thing about Lego, it’s great for engineering and easy to put together 🤣
@@timehunter9467 Not necessarily lego, it's more of how youtube works as a platform. Plenty of people are making successful careers out of niches they enjoy making videos out of whereas this wasn't really an option decades before.
without talking
@@HeavySparkit’s not really an option anymore either unless you’re an above average tiktok girl or extremely talented
Says more about us viewers than him 😅
i like brick
He like brick
Me like brick too
Like brick we do
Brick like I
I don’t like brick… I love brick
Nice bilfs!
Ok
No way
Real civil engineer has a crush on any bridge confirmed.
@RealCivilEngineerGaming
Hello. also congratulation with 2 million subs!
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And the video just ends right there. What a work of art. No asking for subs, likes, linking videos on screen to get additional views. It just ends with all the bridges on screen labeled. This is perfection.
Descendants for watching pretty good morning
Well said!
I have no idea why, but the sound of the car going over the bridge each time is just... lovely?
High pitched electric noises
Looking for this comment
@@Andrecio64 high pitched happy electric noises
"Vrrrrrrrrrr"
a man has fallen into the river in lego city!
This feels like a chaotic version of Poly Bridges, and I’m all here for it
polybridge 3 lookin great
I came here to look for this comment and i found it
Bridge simulators FTW
@@AlexGFrank BSFTW
I would say less chaotic
@@DraganAlves Ok… you may have a slight point… But hey, legos are still neat either way
The folding bridge looks the most unstable. I hope in real life, reinforcements are added so that it doesn't bend as much as this one did. Well done on this!
i am pretty sure in real life the joints get locked in place
No I'm pretty sure in real life they follow this exact schematic.
Many of these are just for demonstration purposes. Still super interesting.
@@Atlas.Brooklyn The people who pump real-sized table bridges up and down must be massive
@@Atlas.Brooklyn Yep. All real life bridges are made from lego.
Bridging the gap in bridge knowledge
verified youtuber and no replies, only 1 like? lemme change that!
I for one am not like xlthecoolguy-Iz7uh
The very best part of this video is the foley work on the boat crossings. When the boat goes over the hydraulic tubes or the electrical cords and the sound matches? *Chef’s kiss*
It's impressive how much you communicate without uttering a single word. The use of motors etc to show the mechanisms and minifigs moving on their own after building with your hands really brings the LEGO to life! Perfect video, as always.
If there's ever a part 2, consider including the "Strauss Bascule." The most common design uses a parallelogram linkage and they are found all over Chicagoland (mostly for railroads), as well as lift bridges (7:15), Scherzers (1:21), and some old designs that are now locked in place including a Rall bridge, Page bridge, and bobtail swing bridges. There's a PDF called "Historic Chicago Railroad Bridges" that explains more about them.
I love how the ones that perform the best are the ones commonly used in real life.
yeah even the transporter one is used irl as well.
@Redemption mind=blown
Using a miniature for testing is very common before building and engineering the real deal. If the small version works best then the full sized version is likely to work the best.
@@NotTheDAHASAG mind = bricked
Me when the best option is the best 🤯
Nice to see at #10 the transporter bridge receiving a bit of love. Just a handful of them still remains, much less in operating conditions, and I live just 5 km from Bizkaia Bridge, the first one ever made and still perfectly working at 130 years old, an UNESCO heritage monument. The Eiffel tower of bridges (seriously, Alberto Palacio, the engineer, was a student on Eiffel studio).
The one in Newport not far from where I live is still working though as I understand it it's really only open as a tourist attraction. It is 117 years old.
@@_starfiendteesider
We have one in France, at Rochefort, near La Rochelle (Charente Maritime region). It's almost never used and it's more like a remnant of a distant past. Its mechanism is told to be a real pain in the a$$ to maintain. I guess those bridges are used only for places where you don't often have to transport something from one side of the river to the other...
I live very near a number 9 that used to be a number 10 until it was converted in the 1920s, it is also one of only a few in the world that do the lifting with counterweights is my understanding
This is an amazing demonstration despite it being so small, he tried to make the design as compact as possible using lego as the base. This is just marvelous and an always iconic illustration of how you can put kids toys to real engineering.
Final Products
1. Simple Bascule Bridge 0:42
2. Rolling Bascule Bridge 1:21
3. Drawbridge 2:13
4. Retractable Bridge 2:58
5. Folding Bridge 4:10
6. Swing Bridge 4:58
7. Tilt Bridge 5:38
8. Table Bridge (pneumatic) 6:22
9. Vertical-Lift Bridge 7:15
10. Transporter Bridge 8:29
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@@Strange_Window😢
@@alfredguarino12 what happened
You know its a good day when Brick Experiment drops a video
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I wonder if it is possible to make a horrifying bridge that uses all of them.
You could just make a series of bridges that connect to each other but each with a different system
The Cronenberg bridge
There's Poly Bridge for that
yes. u have multiple pauses and beams supporting each stage of the bridge and all ur doing is making the person in the car stop and go every 2 seconds because they re waiting for every bridge to go up and down.
even then its very likely u could combine 2 bridges into 1 and it still work rather well.
Ya and the public would wait, in traffic for 19 hours. And then the police would write tickets, for causing a nuisance while sleeping in your car.
My favourite part is seeing the boat clearly fall over some edge just as it's going off screen.
This guy is a lego engineering genius
It would be cool if you did a part 2 where you recreate some of the interesting draw bridges in the Netherlands!
Weed
@@skogen5357weed is overpriced in the netherlands
Yeah, we do have some interesting drawbridges in the country.
He's from the Netherlands so it'd only make sense
@@penciloctopus2231 he's Finnish
5:00 Every day I row under one of these. The bridge is massive. You can see the gears working and it's just super cool.
I street?
4:10 This mechanism is similar to a cars convertible roof folding back. It would be very interesting if someone implemented it into a build! Very cool video!
Bridges are definitely one of, if not, the most interesting pice of engineering. Combining bridges with lego, and doing in a simple way like this video, is just so cool
I love seeing these in action. My city has a big swing bridge that lets all sorts of big and small ships pass through; seeing it on such a small scale as well is really interesting.
A wise man once said _"perhaps the best Lego is the one we made along the way"_
This is like miniature IRL Polybridge 😂
Just about to say that, polybridge is fantastic
Heeey, someone already said what I was thinking
My favorite one is the folding bridge, as that allows you to cover a massive space with a one-sided bridge! It could do with some extra locking mechanisms and reinforcements in reality, though, as no bridge should bend down under heavy loads as much as that one did.
As a pro castle builder, i see them all as an absolute win.
This channel is just bringing me back to all those silly Lego animations from forever ago
The joy I felt when I saw you did all bridges side by side synchronised!
I can't help but wonder, why would you pick one bridge over another? Where's the shots of something going wrong and a new bridge coming in that addresses that problem? I like seeing iterative design in action- or at least some pros and cons.
It's usually due to specific use cases. Some places don't have the space for the bridge section to lift in a specific direction. Or the bridge can't support the weight or something over a section lifted or turned or what have you. Sometimes it's because they can and it looks cool
@@hothi92 also they need to take into account what the bridge will be used for
The size of the boats that will be passing through is also a major consideration.
Money, Available Materials and Long Time Maintenance are also major considerations
It's not so much things going wrong where another bridge is needed, it's more a matter of available space, money, and materials, and requirements in terms of traffic
Love these lego videos! My math teacher showed the class some of your videos which was cool!
When the little car always crosses the bridge in the end, just love it 😍
The synchronized but at the end was a plus. Great video demonstration.
7:43 Transporter Bridge is a very unusual idea. Idk if you pay for the bridge or not but slow and delayed. Imagine if they keep using those ideas, it'll get traffic forever...
That's what i thought of it when i first saw him build and use it
These bridges are usually used for light traffic areas that stretch over long plains. Some of them float on the water like a tiny barge to enable it to stretch even further and hold more load.
Х дхарма
Cable car
0:10 Bascule bridge (Simple)
0:51 Bascule bridge (Rolling)
1:33 Bascule bridge (Chain-attatched)
2:24 Retractable bridge (also known as Thrust bridge)
3:13 Folding bridge
4:26 Swing bridge
5:13 Tilt bridge
5:50 Table bridge (pneumatic) (similar to Vertical-lift bridge)
6:39 Vertical-lift bridge (hydraulic) (similar to Table bridge)
7:29 Transporter bridge (also known as ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge)
8:49 SIDE BY SIDE
9:09 SIDE BY SIDE (synchronized)
My favorite was definitely the table based purely on the fact that I didn’t know LEGO had produced pieces for pneumatic.
You have the greatest satisfying videos on RUclips! Thank you!
i like brick. The sound of the legos clicking together is always so soothing. .
As I was watching this I was thinking I'd love to see your take on a transporter bridge. Did not disappoint! :D
There's one near me that's over 115 years old and is still in use today.
Is that the one that Terry Scott drove his Jaguar almost off the end of the gondola, or the Newport one?
@@emma.j.nation The Newport one
5:10 seems like the driver fell in the water anyway. rip
😂
Just like the 43 people on the Amtrak train
@@T.TAviation307147 actually
Never fails to impress me
Coolest LEGO TECHNIC MOC, I've ever seen..!! I love the use of the mini figs..
Me making the most complex bridges ever seen by humanity in Poly Bridge
This is why both a ship to battle against another kingdom and a vehicle going to McDonalds are *able* to *safely* cross the bridge.
The battleship just won against Brickish Kingdom.
The vehicle went to McDonalds and *finally* found the normal ice cream machine and bought what they want.
Nice build!
Very cool! I don't know if these all have real-world examples but if they do it would be cool to put a little clip of a real-life bridge with that mechanism after each one!
That's what I was thinking too, the only touch missing from this otherwise excellent video
My favourite part is seeing the boat falling down right after it passes the bridge as if there was a waterfall
Edit: you can see all of the boat falling down at 8:55 and ut’s the funniest thing
As a lego boat driver i can confirm that there is a waterfall.
Don't know why but I think I've watched this video for the 10th time, but I still want to watch it again, it's so amazing and interesting
Which one of these bridges should i make for my At-te to pass thru and over in my clone base
0:08 A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER IN LEGO CITY!
also 5:10 a car has fallen into the river in lego city
HEY!!
START BY BUILDING THE HELICOPTER!
Now we're gonna need RCE to review it
1:20 Strongest shape. This video is a proper Polybridge "tribute". He'd be proud!
Very fascinating. Would love to see how efficient each design is in energy usage.
Real bridges of most types would have counterweights, making them much more efficient.
He just kept adding bridges and I kept getting more and more hyped.
oh oh my god.... the synchronized shot. I think I legod all over.
Love the sound of the truck driving over bridge joints
1:48 Medieval bridge! Cool Idea!
Great video. The more complex something is and the more parts used, the higher the chance of something failing. Keep things as simple as possible, for longevity. Applies to everything
applies to life
Next time you should put Actual water
how will the Lego float
@ he can attach the beams to the floor or put tape
@DaCheetahvr bro you’d need to have a container for water for that
all the Welsh viewers cheering when you included the transporter bridge!
az első a legjobb.... egyszerű, olcsó, elegáns, fenntartható, a többi komplikálthoz képest...bár jobb egy olyan híd amit nem akadályoz senkit a haladásban és emelgetni se kell
7:24 I was waiting for you to lift the bridge with the car on it!
The driver would be terrified
Some one on bridge be like: ☠️@@-ZM_Gaming-
Would be interesting if you made a video about movable bridges, as in: bridges you can place down and pick back up again after use!
There's a video I've watched on RUclips about a remote control bridge building truck, as it is in real life in the Army. I forget the channel name now but the bridge laying machine model is amazing! Drives up to the gap, lays the bridge in front of itself, drives over the bridge and retrieves the bridge afterwards! Mind blowing.
ruclips.net/video/hyQRogK6Jdg/видео.html
Very cool!!
The best thing about LEGO is that it can be used to translate into real life, so most, if not all, of these bridge designs can and will work, and have worked, irl. LEGO is just simply too good.
Bridges are like, the epitome of cool, satisfying things.
0:44 who else saw small plastic rope
Me
That’s the point
I
How else do you think the boat moves?
@@josephj807Lego boats or real boats 😂
anyone else gettig polly bridge vibes here
I was about to comment this cus i was like hmmm feels like poly bridge
7:13 is that a lumber tycoon 2 reference? 🤔
@The last chair lol 👨🏿🦳
These ideas are exactly what the people who built the Baltimore Bridge needed💀🙏🏽
I like the basic basclue bridge the most.
A simple but, effedtive design. Easy to maintain and easy to repair.
Bro imagine what would happen if a car was there while it was going up😂 5:26
YEEET
imagine the transporter bridge (7:29) irl😂
I'm sure it exists somewhere out there, but nobody found it yet?
The Folding Bridge is very impressive !!!
That was pretty cool. It is amazing what can be done with LEGOS.
the MumboJumbo of LEGO
Poly bridge in real life be like:
Actually
Yes
5:40 bro just rides through a cable lol
And at 6:28 too
He always has
Excellent modelling along with excellent detachability and flexibility with excellent to look simplicity behind concrete engineering
8:21 next, make a lego 3D printer
3:11 the car definitely fell off off camera.
polybridge in real life:
Yea
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Ya 🚗🎇🌄🎎🚦🚦🚦
🎉c,b😢😮😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 😅😅😅😅v😅😅😅😅😅okiik morning is that a good day of work for
Yes
I feel like all of us as a kid has wanted to be able to make a Lego car that can drive and we don’t have to push it and this man can do that
I’m not even interested in Lego and yet me, a single celled goblin has decided to spend important time I could be using to sleep and have a healthy life on this. I like
7:18 lumber tycoon anyone?
Boring game
6:28 cheats
wot
4:00 bro what the nerdy hell was that
Honestly despite how simple the video is, I must say it’s incredibly entertaining and satisfying to watch👍
this man is the reason no one falls into the river in lego city anymore
4:40 huh?
08:49 RIP Headphone users
5:48 *Yeet*
I was thinking the same thing 😂.
@@aghnajitpal2165 *y e e t*
1. 0:10 Simple bascule bridge
2. 0:50 Rolling bascule bridge
3. 1:33 Drawbridge
4. 2:24 Retractable bridge
5. 3:13 Folding bridge
6. 4:25 Swing bridge
7. 5:13 Tilt bridge
8. 5:50 Table bridge (pneumatic)
9. 6:39 Vertical-lift bridge
10. 7:28 Transporter bridge
Extra. 8:47 All bridges side by side
Extra 2. 9:08 All bridges side by side (synchronised)
this is the kind of video i'd be watching at 3am when I'm supposed to be sleeping
3:45 I am enjoying the sounds of the womb.
But can they all be combined into one?
Pov: its 2am and you want to sleep but the yt algorithm presents this masterpiece on your fyp and you just think duck it why not
Therapist: “Lego Polybridge isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.”
Lego Polybridge:
Brilliant video, I love watching these.
I love how the boat just falls off the edge every time it passes through
New Poly-Bridge looking crazy.